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Re:Introducing Notion AI by ljm on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:37AM (#33625963)
I think I find the examples they give actually quite worrying in an age where we are dealing with hard problems around moderation.

"10 ways async communication is more productive" - alright, so you have an AI answering a leading question. Are you going to take the output as given and publish it as-is or spend time verifying and tweaking it? If you do the latter, how much productivity have you gained from rewriting a generated post compared to writing your own draft?

For automatic summarising and translating, okay cool, that really could be handy but this is almost commodity tech at this point.

I don't like my negative, pessimistic response here but I don't need tools that make it easier to write or create, I need them to keep things organised and up to date as you've mentioned. I need a better search that can help me find something that already exists, or actually point me to that article if I'm writing something that starts to look like a duplicate.

Can the AI say "this 'setting up the environment' post looks really similar to [some other setting up the environment post] which was written 6 months ago; is that what you're looking for/do you want to edit that?"

Re:Introducing Notion AI by rwc on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:46AM (#33626162)
"If you do the latter, how much productivity have you gained from rewriting a generated post compared to writing your own draft?"

In my experience, AI providing the activation energy to get a first draft is highly valuable.